We’ll locate it in our Steam Library and click on the gear icon. Where it says ‘Applications’, choose the dropdown list and ‘All files’ and then add it to the. Then, greeted by a file browser, and we’ll have to change what we can see. We load up Steam, and in the left-hand corner, hit the + icon and ‘Add non-steam game’. Now we can go into desktop mode by pressing the Steam button then, ‘Power’ and ‘Desktop mode’. exe file for windows, but we need to implant it into Proton. First of all, we need to head to Blizzard’s download page for. The problem with this is that its extra steps that a user doesn’t need to take.ĭownloading on the Steam Deck is a bit of an unusual process. It’s an intermediary layer that will handle the installation of a section of the software and silo it.

There is a method with ‘Bottles’, a bit of Linux that does a related thing to Valve’s Proton. Blizzard does not support Linux, and the launcher is also not in Linux's favor. Blizzard’s games would easily play on Valve’s Steam Deck, and there are problems in installing the games themselves. Blizzard’s list of games is secured behind the launcher.

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